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Posted: 12:02:15 on January 21 2003
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Deep Space Nine

Speaking in the new issue of the UK's Star Trek Monthly, former STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE executive producer Ira Steven Behr says the franchise's third series made its mark with imperfect, more realistic characters.

"We brought frailty back. People aren't always sitting around talking about how to solve problems. People are the problem," he says in the mag (excerpts available at TrekToday). I think we tried to make the characters grow and become more multi-dimensional... It's nice to see we're going to survive the 20th century, and this is still the optimistic Gene Roddenberry universe, but there are relatable human frailties within that perfect world."

For Behr, Colm Meaney's 'Miles O'Brien' was a character more relatable to today than any previous TREK character.

"He was the only guy in all of Star Trek that I could relate to. He's intelligent, but not that intelligent, he's a little bigoted, he's a little sexist, he's a little everything and I think that was a nice character to have," he recalls.

The darker, edgier and less perfect universe of DS9 was the chief reason Behr, who had left TNG after the third season, hopped back into the fold.

"I had lunch with Michael and Rick Berman, and they said, 'There will be more humour, more conflict, more characters to play with, less tech. People will be more neurotic and unhappy and dark,' and I said, 'Okay, I think I can do that!'"

Read more excerpts from Behr's interview, including his thoughts on whether there will ever be a new DS9 project, at TrekToday.

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